Lyrbe

Lyrbe (spelled Lyrba in the 1910 Catholic Encyclopedia; Ancient Greek: Λύρβη) was an ancient city and later episcopal see in the Roman province of Pamphylia Prima and is now a titular see.^[1]

A structure to the east of the agora

Lyrbe Naras Bridge

Lyrba

A general view of Lyrbe
Shown within Turkey
Location	Antalya Province, Turkey
Region	Pamphylia
Coordinates	36°52′29″N 31°28′24″E
Type	Settlement
Site notes
Condition	In ruins

The Agora of Lyrbe

Its site is identified with that about 1 km north of modern Bucakşeyhler,^[2][3]

History

Its name is only known by its coins and the mention made of it by Dionysius Periegetes,^[4] Ptolemy,^[5] and Hierocles.^[6][7] Dionysius places the town in Pisidia, while William Smith equates Lyrbe with the Lyrope (Λυρόπη), mentioned by Ptolemy and placed by the ancient geographer in Cilicia Trachaea.^[8]

The Notitiae episcopatuum mention Lyrba as an episcopal see, suffragan of the archbishopric of Side, up to the 12th and 13th centuries. Two of its bishops are known: Caius, who attend the First Council of Constantinople in 381, and Taurianus at the First Council of Ephesus in 431 (Le Quien, Oriens christianus, I, 1009); Zeuxius was not Bishop of Lyrba, as Le Quien states, but of Syedra.^[7]

The Site

There are extensive remains of an agora containing a row of two-storey and three-storey building façades, a gate, a mausoleum, a Roman bath, a necropolis, in addition to several temples and churches.

See also

• Seleucia (Pamphylia)
• Extensive series of pictures of the remains of Lyrbe

References

1. Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 918
2. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
3. J. Nollé, "Forschungen in Selge und Ostpamphylien", Araştırma 6 (1988), pp. 257–59.
4. Dionysius Periegetes 858,
5. Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 5.5.5.
6. Hierocles. Synecdemus. Vol. p. 682.
7. Sophrone Pétridès, "Lyrba" in Catholic Encyclopedia (New York 1910)
8. Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 5.5.9.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Lyrbe". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.